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Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-10

The Delightful Old-TIme Wit, Wick
 edness and BrfllfaRcy Gone-The
 Stage, Literature and Dresses Sunk
 to MediocrftY-
 IFrom Vanity Fair.l
 The Queen once said to one of her minis ters: 'All that is wicked comes from Par is." This was felt at the time to mean 'all that is clever all that is amusing, all that is delightful, all that is charming and slightly improper comes from Paris" This was the feeling twenty years ago. Not month, scarcely even week, passed but some new and admirably clever thing was done, or said or written in Paris. The plays were always admirable, the newspapers trifing indeed but daily exquisite, the books marvellous works of art, the dresses, the bonnets, the cultures all creations of genius of the high est kind in their way; and dear, delightful Paris was justified of her children.
 But now all is changed-so changed that the greatest admirer of Paris looks in vain for any trace of the qualities which once made it what it was. It is deplorable. There seems to be nothing left of all that was once so fascinating, so enviable, so unap- proachable by less lively and clever people. The newspapers are no longer triiing, clever and bright they are either savagely personal or intolerably dull. The Figaro, for in- stance, which under M. de Villemessant was 50 original and so brilliant, has fallen into the hands of company of Jews who have knocked all the brains out of it till it is dull as ditchwater. The Journal des Debats and the Temps are solemn and silly, most solemn and most silly above all in foreign affairs, and the little glimmer of cleverness in Henri Rochefert's Intransigeant and M. de Cassag- nac's Autorite is wholly lost in brutal and savage personalities Journalism in France has lost the art of using the napier; it deals now with bludgeons; it has descended from the refnements of the salon to the coarse brutalities of Billingsgate-it is wholly 8 different thing from what it used to be. The monthly reviews are no better. The Revue des Mondes, formerly one of the great delights of each month, is wretched from one end to the other: the Revue Contempo- raine is as unreadable as the Spectator; and the only papers have found ln all of them are & clever letter from Constantinople on European politics in the Revue Britannlque, and a clever articls on Madrid cab drivers in the Revue nlustree.
 Then as to plays There is simply nothing worth going to see. s'Durand ct Durand, ' at the Palais Royal, is smartly written piece, but not within hundred miles of the 1 ssCagnotte.'' Judic has tried a new play al | the Varieties and has failed; the Franchise 1 has 8 very moderate performance Tn "Fran, cillon. which is one of the Dumas fills series | of stage lectures, wherein the actors talk leading articles on the state of soclety-s l piece well-written, well-acted improper | ssTommy Rot" The actors and actresses moreover seem to be all we'll over fifty, fol | the Franchise has become as close a ring as South Kensington, and apparently as incapa b1e of producing any superior thing. Int proof that there is nothing written now fol 1 the Parisian equal to the stage pieces O
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-10
Tuesday, May 10, 1887.
INTERPRETING LAWMAKERS

MATCHMAKING LAWMAKERS.
 The performances connected with the leg islature of Massachusetts are unusually lively and interesting this year. The lobby has been 'hauled over the eoals" in the Beverly Farms case and now the sensation is the trial and acquittal of the landlord of the Bay State House in Worcester, who was charged with violating the liquor law by furnishing intoxicating liquors for the use of commit tes of the legislature.
 The messenger of the house of representa- tives, who accompanied the committee, tes- tifed that while at the Bay State House he was asked to furnish some liquor for the committee. He gave an order to the land lord for some Bass ale, some bourbon whis- key and Medford rum. The landlord told him that he had nothing to drink in the house and it was impossible to fill the order. Hereported to the committee and was asked if he could not procure the liquor at drug store. He asked the landlord if he couldn't procure the liquor at drug store. The landlord told him that he had no license, no liquors were sold in the city, and it would be impossible for him to procure any. After more testimony the judge said: There is not the slightest evidence to show that any liquors had been furnished the committee by the landlord of the Bay State House as such. If he procured the liquor for the committed at a drug store then he simply acted as agent for it. It appeared that MT. Brown, the leg | islative messenger, was Q stranger in Worces ter and not familiar with the drug stores, and he asked MT. Shepard to accommodate the committee by supplying the demand that he
 was unable to do. If MT. Shepard furnished l the liquor he did so merely in the capacity ot | a messenger. The complaint is dismissed. 1 This is certainly very ridiculous affair 1 A member of the committee has admitted
 that intoxicating liquors were procured a his instance ostensibly for the entertainment
 of the committee, though he knew that the, could not be legally procured for that pur pose. The Worcester Spy says of the case
 If the evidence had sustained the charge thu
 moral delinquency and public scandal at l tendant upon the act of the member of th
 committee and the officer of the legislatur 1 who in the name of the committee solicited l the performance of the illegal act were s' much graver than the guilt attributed to tn
 defendant in the prosecution that the publi
 instantly and rightly condemned the attemp
 to punish the latter, while the others wer
 allowed to escape without evil consequences
 us grossly unjust.
 l Now that the accommodating landlord ha
 got clear there is a demand that the hous' censure the member who ordered the liquor | The hill for the liuuor has been disalloWed
 and all will probably be serene again soon.
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against those who are not duly authorized by some church and responsible for what they teach and do.
 There is great deal of discord among the labor reformers. John Swinton writes bit- terly against Henry Georges friends who manage the Land and Labor party. He all leges that they are antagonistic to all who will net take out five dollar charter for a land and labor club, and that these clubs are not agents of cooperation but elements of dis union in the labor reform movement of the country. He declares that the George party in New York city is run by ring managers who .have adopted the policy of rule or ruin after having failed in the role of dog in the manager, and he ascribes the con- duet of the Land and Labor committeeman to jealousy of the successes of the union labor organization in Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin and Michigan.
 In an article published Tn one of the French scientific journals the writer states that, from a comparison made by him of the results of animal and steam power, as en- ployed in France at least, the first named is really the cheaper motor; that is, in the con- version of chemical to mechanical energy ninety per cent. was found to be lost in the machine, against sixty-eight in the animal He has also found that the steam horse pow CT, contrary to the belief generally entertain ed, is often materially exceeded by that of the horse. Thus the cost of traction on the Montparnasse-Bastille line of railroad proved to be for each car, daily, some ffty-seven francs, while the same work when performed by the horse cost not exceeding forty seven francs. In view of these and similar facts bearing on the question, the conclusion ar rived at is that, for moderate powers, the conversion of chemical to mechanical energy is more economically effected through ani- mals than through steam engines.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-10

Murray'S new tnSllSu ulcIlouuty SlFeS IAO word 'boom" place, and refers to the h. dianapolis Journal as having originated it. The Journal, however, modestly admits the claim of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, which first used the word in July, 1878, and almost daily tor a good while afterward
 This has been Q bad year for fires, so far. The aggregate losses for the month of April in the United States and Canada amount in value to $11, ,750, ,000, which exceeds those of March by $1 300, 900, making total for the first four months of this year of $41 ,250, 900. If kept up at this rate the fire loss for 1887 OOO
 Boston is indeed a queer place. A resi- dent of that city says that, being caught in a shower the other day, he asked stranger to let him walk under his umbrella. The stranger not only consented, but when they came to part insisted that citizen No. take the umbrella, as he, citizen No. 2, had but a step to walk. The narrator says that he re- turned the umbrella.
 The Russian Nihilists are very sincere. Ou0 OI lu0 u0u JuSG COuuSLuucu 4s JOuDS student, who has taken the highest award of his university, the gold medal. When the last plot failed, and all the plotters were doomed to death if captured, he sold his medal to obtain money enough to enable an accomplice to escape He remained behind and met his doom with fearlessness.
 A sharp watch for the adulteration of food and drink is kept in Paris, and out of 93d samples of wine analysed at the Paris mu- nicipal laboratory in March, only 365 were sound, 207 contained water, 177 plaster, 125 were sugared, and 39 composed in part oi raisins. Out of 49O samples of milk 39s 1 were good and 92 adu1terated with water l Eleven samples of butter out of twelve were good. |. The Rev. J. E. Godbey of St. Louis says what many are thinking as follows: It ough l to be known that man who goes around advertised as an evangelist and taking con tracts, as it were, to convert so many souls in such length of time, is a humbug. Tax 1 ing all things into consideration, we shal have to put brakes on this evangelisti' movement, either by adopting system O evangelism under our own appointment O control, or resolving to close our churches
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IN THE
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 Preliminary examination, prior to application for patent made at Patent Office, at a small charge.
 His facilities for procuring Patents in Foreigr Countries are unequaled Refers to more than one thousand clients for whom he has procured Letters Patent jy1sd&w
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-10

Presidents can't get away from things as
 some others can Mrs. Charlotte Smith, all advanced ''reformer" at Washington, is writ ing open letters to MT. Cleveland, whom she addresses as 'sMy son."
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-10

Crude petroleum for cheap fuel is making it's way. In Cincinnati it has been tested with satisfactory results in firing stationary engines, and the Pennsylvania railroad com pany is experimenting with it as fuel for To- comotives.
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There is large anti-poverty society in New Haven, but it's members work with their hands and their brains instead of with their mouth
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

twill, perhaps. take a load off the minds of some people to know that Senator Hearst has ''no thought of being president"
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-10
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THE DEcADENCE OF PARIS.

The Delightful Old-TIme Wit, Wick edness and BrilliaRcy Gone-The Stage, Literature and Dresses Sunk to MediocrftY.
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THE WEATHERCOCK.
Reasons for a Custom Which Seems to B,
Thousands of Years Old.

Reasons for Custom Which Seems to Be
Thousands Of Years Old.
Why should cocks figure on the top
of steeplesp Christians connect the
custom with the reproach the cock once
conveyed to st. Peter. But the cock
used to be placed on the tops of sacred
trees long before it was transferred to
church steeples, and in North Germany
it still stands upon the May poles. 1t
was partly a watchman and partly a
weather prophet, and by its growing it
could disperse evil spirits and all ap-
preaching calamities. Its life was sa-
cred in India and Persia, and Cicero
speaks of the ancients regarding the
killing Of a cock as crime equal in
blackness to the sHffocation of father.
Our weathercocks are doubtless the sur
vivals of these old ideas; though the
solar mythologists trace all these things
to the use of domestic fowls as obvious
personifcations of the sun, so that ssthe
pearl which the fowl searches for in the
dunghill is naught else but its own egg,
and the egg of the hen in the sky is the
sun itself, and 's.he hen of the fable
and fairy tales which lays golden eggs
is the mythical hen (the earth or the
sky which gives birth every day to the
sum- One can scarcely conceive any
thing more absurd, and it would be in
teresting to know how ON solar prin-
ciples would be explained the Tyrolese
custom of not letting black hen live
for seven years lest she should then lay
an egg out of which might issue a dragon
destined to live hundred wears. Gen
tlenaan's Aagazine
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AT MIDNIGHT.

ms rcorn is cold and dark to-mgnt-
iA The fire is low;
,,r.- cor,e YOU, you who love the light,
To mock me so!
,pray you leave me now alone;
You worked your will
.nd turned my heart to frozen stone:
Why haunt me stillg
,sot me TO this empty place;
I shut the door;
y.tfbrouet the dark see your face
Just as of yore.
ree old smile curves your lips tonight,
Your deep eyes glow
With that old gleam that made them bright
So long ago.
listen: do hear your tone
The silence thrill?
yhy come your Iwould be alone:
Why vex me still!
What's Would you that we re-embrace-
We two once moref
ARE these your tears that wet my face
Just as befores
Van left to seek some new delight,
Yet your tears flow:
What sorrow brings you Dack to-nlgnt'
Shall not know?
Ixill not let you grieve alone
The night is chill
Though love is dead and hope has flown.
Pity lives still.
How silent is the empty spacei
Dreamed once more?
Henceforth against your haunting face
bar the door.
.Le.ass Chandler Aoulton, IN Harper's Magazine
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GREEN BUT SMART.
How q Yankee Boy Secured Position Ia q
New York Store.

How q Yankee Boy Secured a Position In q
New York Store.
Years ago, into wholesale grocery
store in this city, walked tall, muscu-
lar-looking man, evidently a fresh
conner from some backwoods town in
Maine or New Hampshire. Accosting
the first person he met, who happened
to be the merchant himself, he asked:
"You don't want to hire man In
your store, do you9"
"Well," said the merchant, II don't
know. What can you do?''
"Do?' said the man. II rather guess
/ can turn my hand to almost any thing.
What do you want done?'
"Well, if were to hire man, it
would be one who could lift well-a
strong, wiry fellow; one, for instance,
that could shoulder sack of coffee like
that yonder, and carry it across the
store, and never lay it down"
..There now, Cap'n," said the coun-
tryman, "that's just me, / can lift any
thing can hitch to. You can't suit me
better What will you give a man that
can suit youp''
.Tll tell you," said the merchant
.'If you shoulder that sack of coffee,
and carry it across the store twice,
and never lay it down, l will hire you
for year at a hundred dollars
month";
"Donem said the stranger.
And by this time every clerk in tho
store had gathered around, and was
waiting to join in the laugh against the
man, who, walking up to the sack,
threw it across his shoulder with perfect
ease, as it was not extremely heavy.
and, walking with it twice across the
floor, went quietly to a large hook
which was fastened to the wall, and
hanging it up, turned to the merchant
and said:
There, now! it may hang there till
doomsday; / shall never lay it down.
What shall go about, mister? Just give
me plenty to do, and a hundred dollars 8
month, and it's all right
The clerks broke into laugh; but
the merchant. discounted yet salts
fed, kept his agreement; and to-day the
green countryman is the senior partner
in the firm, and worth million dollars.
| --Balgou's Monthly,
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NUMBER so.
PUNGENr PARAGRAPHS.

John Luce, of Schoharie, N. Y, died
leaving bequests amounting to $3.50. 900.
but his sole wealth only footed up twen-
ty-three dollars.
"A learned man must write and
speak a long time before he can show
his learning to the world. A fool can
show his ignorance at the first pop
N o. PicayNme.
-"Where shall we go for the winter?"
asks writer. Northern Manitoba is
good place. There is said to be consid-
cradle winter there.-Burlington Free
Press.
"A good many fables begin, ''Once
on time" Oddly enough, too, when
married men have been once on time.
they are apt to invent fables Sonaer-
gtlle Journal.
When you hear a man boast that
he has given his wife check on her
birthday, it may be well to inquire
whether it was wooden stuff or only
cheap calico.-Boston Transcript.
A Massachusetts woman recently
lost the use of her jaw. and the doctors
say that she has worn out the muscle
that acts as hinge. We somehow
wonder that this does not occur oftener.
-Nes0 HaUeas Nea0s.
"A scientific writer tells how water
can be boiled in sheet of writing pa
per. We don't doubt it. We have
known man to write few lines on
sheet of writing paper that kept him in
hot water for three years.-Burdette.
"A publishing house advertises
certain writer as ''the popular female
authoress. Lest there should still be
some doubt as to the sex of the person,
it might not be out of place perhaps to
add that this female authoress is she
woman.-N. Y Graphic.
i remember poor little boy of my
acquaintance who was so bullied into
the polite ''shall'' by would-be gem
teel governess that at last he was driven
to speak of sShall-of-the-Wisp' and
"Shall-iam the Conqueror. London
Truth.
Omaha miss. Mamma, may read
lne paper tO-uay! maillHld- have
not looked it over yet" when will
you?' Il don't know, dear, | am very
busy. You can read tiff you'll promise
to skip all articles about lords and Ia
dies. ."-Onadha World.
Yes, Bill. I'm engaged to Miriam
da. But, do you know. she is most ex-
cessively timid3" "Whenyou are mar
ried to her, Joe, much of that timidity
will wear off. You'll be taking off
your boots in the lower hall at night in
side of the first six months. ."-Philadet-
phia Call.
-"Ah, doctor, you herer' murmured
Mrs. Rugefix, upon coming to herself
after fainting fit: 81 am indebted to
you for my life" :" mot your life, mad
am" replied the doctor with graceful
bow, ''but perhaps have helped you in
another way. All the women here de-
clared you had tainted, but with your
complexion, madam, the thing was abb
surd. / therefore insisted that you were
rendered unconscious by rush of blood
to the head. Chicago Tribune.